Aristotle · Long.

On Length and Shortness of Life

Aristotle on why some living things are long-lived and others short-lived.

This edition presents the original Greek (Ross (OCT, 1955)) side by side with an English translation (G. R. T. Ross) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Bekker citation. 6 chapters.

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• Ross Greek & English · G. R. T. Ross (Oxford, 1908)

Greek text & translations

Greek: W. D. Ross, ed. Aristotle: Parva Naturalia. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955; repr. 1970.
Translation: G. R. T. Ross (Oxford, 1908).
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Modern, copyright-protected translations and commentaries we can’t host here, for readers who want to go further:

• TranslationC. D. C. Reeve, trans., in Aristotle: The Complete Works, 2 vols. (Hackett, 2024) Find in print →

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• In printG. R. T. Ross’s translation, revised, found in Jonathan Barnes, ed., The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, 2 vols. (Princeton University Press, 1984) Find in print →

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